Video: Obama supporters stumped on why government should pay for birth control

posted at 2:01 pm on August 9, 2012 by Mary Katharine Ham

Revealing Politics.com sent a cameraman out to meet women voters at Obama’s Colorado rally Wednesday, where he was introduced by the country’s most famous adult woman incapable of making a run to the CVS, Sandra Fluke.

Enjoy:

President Obama told women at the rally that Mitt Romney “want(s) to take us back to the policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century.” The president’s advantage among women is quite a bit smaller in swing-state Colorado than nationally, and I think the campaign overestimates Fluke’s power as a symbol of modern womanhood to independent Western women. Not exactly the pioneer spirit, Fluke’s.

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like medial doctors- who in the broad majority describe birth control pills as an important component of women’s healthcare.

bayam on August 9, 2012 at 5:06 PM

You misspelled prescribe.

Right?

Not that it matters:

From 1995 to 2002, the percentage of American women who said they received contraceptive services rose from 36 percent to 41 percent, according to Jennifer J. Frost, a senior research associate at the Guttmacher Institute in New York City, and author of the survey report published in the October issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

Let me throw out a question from the 1950s. So what’s wrong with waiting to have sex until you are in a committed mariage relationship? Seriously, has our culture completely ignored the benefits of delayed gratification? I think the way we have behaved is disgusting.

jbh45 on August 9, 2012 at 6:24 PM

The typical marriage age got pushed back about 6 years between 1950 and 2010.

Once again why talk to bayam – just a one trick pony with his hand out. Ignore him, he has no argument. When do I get my free condoms and when can I stop my girl from aborting my baby instead of just being the one to decide if I have to pay for it?

We need to quit saying “government” and start saying “fellow citizen”. What do you think the answer would be if they were asked if their friends and relatives should pay for their birth control?
And yes I am sure some would still think they should, but I expect it would clarify the question considerably. I keep waiting for a candidate who will clearly state there is no magic tree in DC that tax revenue grows on.

Libs cannot think beyond a bumper sticker.
They get their tiny little bumper sticker slogans masquerading as thoughts re-enforced every night on the news, in TV shows, movies, magazines and from endless celebrities as well as teachers and professors. Their tiny little pretend thoughts are never challenged within their tiny little world and minds. And when someone armed with a little common sense comes along and pierces their dark little void with a simple but real question founded in truth…. they are stumbled, bewildered and confused. The slogans fall apart. Real thought struggles to awake.

Why should government pay for what goes on in your bedroom if you don’t want government in your bedroom? “Gosh… I , uh… I don’t know? I never heard a question like that before? I don’t know what to say? I’m being forced to… think. Oh, how it.. hurts.

So you’re saying that medical doctors who are getting paid less and less through Medicare and Medicaid want the government to make them use those programs to prescribe birth control? Those doctors?

Deanna on August 9, 2012 at 8:08 PM

Most doctors hate medicare and medicaid and they are dreading Obamacare…

Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association.

The DPMA, a non-partisan association of doctors and patients, surveyed a random selection of 699 doctors nationwide. The survey found that the majority have thought about bailing out of their careers over the legislation, which was upheld last month by the Supreme Court.

BAYAM it should not be the Federal governments job. You losers and your claims that women are strong and independent and your whining about government’s intrusion into women’s private lives sure seem ironic and hypocritical in today’s world. In reality you think people cannot care for themselves. I suspect your view of women is one not of respect. In fact it is pretty clear.

If I can’t afford my car payment or house payment, they take it away and I no longer have use of it. Be careful what you ask for. Maybe there should be a one time expense of fixing you up to where birth control would not be necessary. Put that out there and see how fast they come up with the money. If you are having $ex and cannot afford it, maybe you need to spend more time on your feet and off your back looking for employment.

If I can’t afford my car payment or house payment, they take it away and I no longer have use of it. Be careful what you ask for. Maybe there should be a one time expense of fixing you up to where birth control would not be necessary. Put that out there and see how fast they come up with the money.

j bo on August 9, 2012 at 8:25 PM

This. Just…this.

There’s already a movement paying drug addicts to get snipped so they don’t pop out crack babies. Why not one that pays irresponsible college students to get snipped so they and their unwanted brat end become public burdens?

Barack Obama, through Fluke’s theatricals, has pigeon-holed “women” into some sort of helpless, unable dependency “pet” of the Left: you own them, you have to feed, bathe and lead them, and make sure they get their shots.

I can’t stand this sort of “helpless dependency” model to define women, per Obama and the Left.

Make an effort to counter that rotten negative stereotype, and the Left will never stop smearing you.

This article might be better titled, “Why the nineteenth amendment should be repealed.”

NeverLiberal on August 10, 2012 at 12:21 PM

Heh. There was an episode of the Man Show where Kimmel and Carola set up a table with a petition to “End Womens Suffrage” and all these women were signing it and walking away feeling real good about themselves. Facepalm.

This article might be better titled, “Why the nineteenth amendment should be repealed.”

NeverLiberal on August 10, 2012 at 12:21 PM

Symptom, not the disease. Trying to reduce women back to “barefoot, pregnant, kitchen” won’t work. Even reducing voting rights back to WASPs wouldn’t work; and you’d have to literally beat the rest of the population into submission.